Developer

Unity5 is a software business delivering SaaS solutions as the UK's leading provider of software to the parking and traffic management sector. The product suite provides a complete solution for both public bodies and private companies to effectively monitor and manage traffic and mobility services.

Founded in Exeter in 2010 and headquartered nearby, Unity5 provides enforcement and permitting software for private parking companies and local authorities to manage parking, traffic, and environmental regulations. The demand for an efficient software proposition in this market has increased significantly in recent years, given the increasing automation and digitisation of the industry, alongside an enhanced regulatory regime for operators driving increased complexity. With c.70+ employees, Unity5 has recurring revenues of £8 million per annum from over 100 customers and in September 2022, award winning growth investor Synova made a majority investment to support the next phase of growth – both in the UK and internationally.

Role Overview
Your role as Developer will be to facilitate the delivery of work from the product backlog consisting of new features (customer enhancements and strategic business requirements), bugs, and technical debt prioritised by the Product Owner. This work consists of that which you are directly responsible for as well as units that you are involved in from a mentorship or design (technical/architectural/UI etc.) capacity.

Work must be facilitated through the development lifecycle from coding, code review, testing and release into production. Code should be produced to a high quality including ensuring the whole team gives consideration to performance and security.

We're looking for someone sympathetic to our existing technologies and processes but also willing to help us to evolve them to match the expected growth of the team and business in an egoless way.

Accountabilities, Responsibilities & Main Duties

• Exercise exceptional problem-solving ability
• Demonstrate high competency in PHP and version control (e.g., Git)
• Demonstrate high competency or aptitude for PHP web frameworks
• Understand high level architectural designs and patterns
• Understand the importance of release management, Jira (or equivalent) discipline and version control to ensure traceable provenance
• Recognise and employ appropriate coding design patterns/paradigms and discourage and mitigate anti-patterns and bad practice
• Follow process, suggest improvements and embrace change
• Build "full" end-to-end solutions
• Demonstrate strong communication skills that can facilitate a bridge between the development team and other parts of the business, management and Product Owner
• Project a positive attitude and ability to work as part of an agile team but with a strong mechanical sympathy with other roles and systems
• Provide input into planning from both a technical and functional standpoint combined with a strong sense of ownership to see work units through their lifecycle
• Practise "fail fast" and learn from mistakes
• Passively mentor more junior members of the team and support management

Benefits
Python/Java experience is a nice to have, not essential.

In return you will be offered a competitive salary and benefits package (training, financial, health and wellbeing and social). Unity5 offers private medical insurance, enhanced maternity & paternity leave, an enhanced holiday package increasing with long service and an enhanced pension scheme.

Unity5 boasts an open, collaborative and learning-driven atmosphere, where you will work alongside a team of progressive experts in their fields, always rising to meet new challenges. You will be part of a culture that values and promotes a sense of community and connections with others. We are stable and established, with the quiet confidence of knowing our solutions deliver real value and growth to our clients.